[p2p-research] piou interest+free money, a global wir?

[Michel Bauwens]

Hi Thomas,

Is Sergio Lub involved? or just advising?

what do you think about my critique/unease about the patenting/trademarking
of it?

Michel

On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 12:26 AM, Thomas Greco <thg at mindspring.com> wrote:

>  Michel, Sepp,
>
> Both Sergio Lub and I know Ammar Charani, the person who has developed
> poiu.com.
> We both have advised him about it, but Sergio has been closer to it than I.
> I'd suggest you contact him.
> Ammar says he has also consulted with Margrit Kennedy.
>
> It's a web based credit clearing platform. I think the concept is very good
> and the platform seems well built but I've told him that the membership
> agreement is too daunting to allow massive adoption. Also, I think there is
> a need for local nodes and some means to make it more personal and
> trustworthy.
> It may be necessary to build a global exchange network from the bottom up
> rather than from the top down, but perhaps it can go both ways
> simultaneously.
>
> regards,
> Tom
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Sepp Hasslberger <sepp at lastrega.com>
> *To:* Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>
> *Cc:* Peer-To-Peer Research List <p2presearch at listcultures.org> ; Thomas
> Greco -- thg <thg at mindspring.com> ; Bernard Lietaer<blietaer at earthlink.net>; Bernard
> Miche - FINERGIE <bmiche at skynet.be> ; Marilyn Mehlmann<mmehlmann at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, September 14, 2010 06:39 AM
> *Subject:* Re: piou interest+free money, a global wir?
>
> Michel,
>
> I have scheduled an introduction of the initiative for 21 September on the
> P2P Foundation blog.
>
> Some of the information on their site about ownership, profits and
> governance is held in pretty vague terms...
>
> Sepp
>
>
>
>
>  On 11/set/10, at 10:21, Michel Bauwens wrote:
>
> sepp,
>
> could you have a look at this? it looks like a very serious and
> professional initiative, http://www.poiu.com/
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